1995/12/20 by Volker Koch, Koch, Volker
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Nuclear physics research studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nucl-th/9512029
52 pages , PostScript, figures included; Proceedings of the TAPS workshop, Bosen, Germany, Sept. 1995
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These lectures are an attempt to a pedagogical introduction into the elementary concepts of chiral symmetry in nuclear physics. Effective chiral models such as the linear and nonlinear sigma model will be discussed as well as the essential ideas of chiral perturbation theory. Some applications to the physics of ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions will be presented.